ER in Iraq: `Awful Lot' of Casualties (AP)

[Eugene]

Source: Associated Press

ER in Iraq: `Awful Lot' of Casualties

By THOMAS WAGNER
The Associated Press
Tuesday, May 8, 2007; 5:05 PM

BAGHDAD -- The nurse was surprised the two soldiers were still alive.

The day before, the men were carried into the emergency room at Ibn
Sina Hospital in Baghdad's fortress-like Green Zone. Both Americans had
been badly injured when their Humvee was hit by a rocket-propelled
grenade in a Sunni district in western Baghdad.

One soldier would have both legs amputated. The other lost one.

The drama to save their lives _ played out in emergency rooms filled with
injured U.S. troops as well as Iraqi forces and civilians _ was another
glimpse of the war's wider evolution: better medical intervention to save
soldiers, but more and more injuries pouring in.

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The apparent rise in casualties reaching Ibn Sina suggests bloodier days
for U.S. troops in Baghdad since most battlefield injuries outside the
capital are treated at the main military hospital in Balad, about 50
miles north of Baghdad.

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Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/08/AR2007050801223.html

[izzie]

1. I read it and it is just too sad. Why are we still in that country?

Bush's war and it will be over when he is gone I guess. Bush looks like he is also going to leave the GOP in one big mess also. Maybe they could move to New Orleans and feel at home. Young men with out legs for some silly ego of a man who does not know what he is doing. What a mess this one man has made. And we all knew it as we had his history in front of us.